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With only a week to go I thought I'd try out our first blog entry! Just a boring entry about preparation. Anyway to ensure we can be self sufficient for at least 48 hours, as in the fridge, lights and water pump keep running without electric hookup. I replaced our faulty 105ah leisure battery with a larger 125ah one. After all no one should have warm beer on holiday. ...

Day 12 completed. Only 5 more to go. Wainwright in his book was not very flattering of this stage of the walk. It was a bit of a trudge in parts. No sooner had we left Richmond it started raining, steady and moderately heavy, lasting the whole morning. A couple of older gents from Reading caught us up while we were putting on our jackets so we stuck together and soldiered on. We talked English history, the art of dry ...

... weather has been all over the place. It rained on and off through the day; nothing too heavy but enough to require waterproofs. The showers stopped as abruptly as they started, only to be followed by sticky bouts of sunshine. Waterproofs off, waterproofs on, waterproofs off etc, etc! It was a bit of a pain. The countryside continued to impress with its beautiful greens, made all the better by the dramatic grey skies. Richmond is the largest town along the coast ...

... sounded just the thing. We set off in a cool overcast following the waters of the river Swale into the villages of Muker, and then Gunnerside. We stopped for lunch there, and whilst we waited for our meals, noticed light rain falling from the window. This continues on and off for the remainder of the walk, stopping as we got to Reeth. The walk was an easy ...

Today was a long day, 27 km with (of course) a big climb above 2000ft at the start. Both of us struggled to get out of bed, dragging our heels into the breakfast room, really just wanting to go back to bed. Last night I limped to the Indian Restaurant in Kirkby Stephen. I had had a sore heel during Saturday's walk and inspection after dinner showed a tense blister the size of 20 cent piece begging for some attention. I punctured and dressed it and by this morning it ...